Like a Rock

摘要

I very much enjoyed reading... "Like a Rock" with Gen. David Petraeus, USA [April 2008]. General Petraeus well deserves the accolades that he has received for the improvement in the security situation in Iraq. General Petraeus, however, deserves this praise not as the primary architect of Iraqi security, but for his ability to put aside parochial in-terservice interests and adequately and quickly leverage the talent of his joint team. By this I mean the successes and initiatives implemented by the II Marine Expeditionary Force in Al Anbar province. I was located inside the Baghdad Beltway in 2007 when the only success (and I mean only) in Iraq was in the Marine-controlled Al Anbar province (known as Multi-National Force - West (MNF-W)).